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Living With Your Rabid Iolausian

A View From the Outside
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1. A Few Introductory Words

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In these pages, I have set out some personal musings on the nature of fans. I've selected that particular variety of fan styled the "Iolausian", purely on the basis of recent experience. Iolausians aren't unique, though (sorry, folks, but that really is true!) - fans who develop an especially strong enthusiasm for any subject may show many characteristics similar to those I'm about to describe.

How This Site Came About.

This site was inspired by the particular obsessions of someone I'll identify by the initial 'S', because she asked me not to identify her too obviously. 'S' is a devoted fan of the variety know as an Iolausian.

Anyway, one evening, 'S' announced that she was going to a nearby city to buy a T-Shirt. Although she didn't come straight out with it - she first asked (in tones of idle enquiry, you know, just as a matter of interest and with no ulterior motive at all) how long it would take to drive to that city. I made a quick guess, and told her.

So, the following morning, we found ourselves driving to that city, in search of the comics store / science fiction bookshop which sold of this particular T-Shirt. As 'S' rapidly located the T-Shirt and launched into a thorough search of the bookshop for various goodies (pausing only to scoff at the collection of mouse mats bearing pictures of the Spice Girls or the Tellytubbies), I had a look round myself. Among the items I found was a book ( Samuel Ramer's Coping With Your Trekkie (UK Title) / Joy of Trek - How to Enhance Your Relationship With a Star Trek Fan (US Title)) which discussed Star Trek fandom from a humourous perspective, and which I added to the armful of goodiesI'd already collected.

If you'd like a copy, it would be best to get down to the local bookshop fairly quickly, as Paramount Pictures have taken legal action against the author and publisher of this book!

Anyway, back to the story of how this page came about. On the way back, I mentioned this book, and said that perhaps I should write one entitled Coping With Your Iolausian. This was a joke. Something happened, though- 'S' liked the idea! I countered with a suggestion that Living With Your Rabid Iolausian would be a more accurate title, and perhaps a web site would be a better means of publication (more immediate, no need to convince publishers that someone will want to buy such a book, that sort of thing). 'S' liked that idea too. What's more, she even told various friends and several of her fellow Iolausians that I was going to put this site together.

From that point I was trapped! There are some people you do not say "no" to. Well, not more than once, anyway.

So, there you have it. That is the story behind how I came to be writing this site. And why not? Only one thing remains before I go on to the site proper: clearing up a few points about the title I've chosen:

A View From the Outside. No great mystery, it's because I am not, myself, a fully paid up member of the Iolausian "community". Don't get the idea, though, that I'm in any way knocking anyone who is - a stroll around my web pages will reveal that I, myself, have my own interests, and I'm sure there are those who would find my own obsessions just a little, shall we say, eccentric?

Sort of. However, despite this fact, I have been exposed to a considerable quantity of material relating to the TV series Hercules, the Legendary Journeys (together with one member of the cast in particular, and the character he portrays...). Mostly, this takes the form of someone, who shall remain nameless (until the proper time, that is!) threatening to show me one episode in particular, and keeping up the pressure until I finally capitulate. There's a limit to how much pressure one can take - even the cat has given in!

Living with. Well, this is quite simple. When I say living with, I mean living with. Not necessarily living with. I hope that's clear? (Well, it makes perfect sense to me!)

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A View From the Outside.	No great mystery, it's because I am not, myself, a fully paid up member of the Iolausian "community". Don't get the idea, though, that I'm in any way knocking anyone who is - a stroll around my web pages will reveal that I, myself, have my own interests, and I'm sure there are those who would find my own obsessions just a little, shall we say, eccentric?
Sort of.	However, despite this fact, I have been exposed to a considerable quantity of material relating to the TV series Hercules, the Legendary Journeys (together with one member of the cast in particular, and the character he portrays...). Mostly, this takes the form of someone, who shall remain nameless (until the proper time, that is!) threatening to show me one episode in particular, and keeping up the pressure until I finally capitulate. There's a limit to how much pressure one can take - even the cat has given in!
Living with.	Well, this is quite simple. When I say living with, I mean living with. Not necessarily living with. I hope that's clear? (Well, it makes perfect sense to me!)

Living With Your Rabid Iolausian

A View From the Outside(sort of)

1. A Few Introductory Words

How This Site Came About.

A View From the Outside
(sort of)